The migration apparatus : security, labor, and policymaking in the European Union / Gregory Feldman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feldman, Gregory, 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers--Government policy.

Foreign workers.

European Union countries--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

European Union countries.

Emigration and immigration.

Government policy.

Foreign workers--Government policy--European Union countries.

Noncitizens--Government policy--European Union countries.

Noncitizens.

Illegal immigration--Government policy--European Union countries.

Illegal immigration.

Noncitizens--Government policy.

Internal security--European Union countries.

Internal security.

Physical Description:

xix, 224 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2012]

Summary:

Every year, millions of people from around the world grapple with the European Union's emerging migration management apparatus. Through border controls, biometric information technology, and circular migration programs, this amorphous system combines a whirlwind of disparate policies. The Migration Apparatus examines the daily practices of migration policy officials as they attempt to harmonize legal channels for labor migrants while simultaneously cracking down on illegal migration.

Working in the crosshairs of debates surrounding national security and labor, officials have limited individual influence, few ties to each other, and no serious contact with the people whose movements they regulate. As Feldman reveals, this complex construction creates a world of indirect human relations that enables the violence of social indifference as much as the targeted brutality of collective hatred. Employing an innovative "nonlocal" ethnographic methodology, Feldman Ruminates the danger of allowing indifference to govern how we regulate population-and people's lives-in the world today. Book jacket.

Contents:

Unconnected in the acephalous world of migration policymaking

Right versus right : how neoliberals and neo-nationalists dominate migration policy in Europe

Making things simple : forms of knowledge and policy coherence in the "area of justice, freedom and security"

Border control : the new meaning of containment

Biometrics : where isn't the security threat?

The right solution, or, The fantasy of circular migration

When there is no there there : nonlocal ethnography in a world of apparatuses

Epilogue : the comparative advantages of the academic and the policymaker.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804761062

080476106X

9780804761079

0804761078

OCLC:

726819171